To me, the important bit is that 20% (ok - that is a wildly inaccurate figure) performance hit associated with a microkernel.
Yes - I'll agree that this is acceptable on a non-gaming desktop machine, but it is not acceptable on a (for example) database server. Linux was always looking to be a server-OS and is increasingly aiming at the sexy high-performance end of the market. Minix was never going to head that way.
Please, it is aisles, not isles. As to the stuff about 'fresh produce', normally the store manager is responsible for that. Finally, that bit about the store being set up so you have to walk right through the entire store even if you know exactly what you want and where it is, that annoys the hell out of me as well. Ikea (furniture chain based in Sweden) does that as well and that is why I have not been there for years.
Starting at the back: If only the original authors of SMTP could have seen the mess we're in now: I don't know who they are, but suspect that they can.
My problem with this 'caller-id' stuff is completely different, and it is rather ironic that Microsoft is behind the proposal. An increasing amount of spam nowadays is coming from owned infected bots running Win2k or XP and on high-speed links. Ok, what happens if an owned bot sends off 10000 or more mails using a legitimate email address. If the email provider has a policy in place limiting the number of mails which may be sent, then that can be caught. I suppose we need all providers to adopt some kind of policy like this, although legitimate mailing-lists then get to be difficult for people who don't have their own email server.
Apparently Honeywell's Multics systems also had a 36 bit word. Several of my email addresses in the past were '36bit@whatever' and someone once thought that meant I was a Multics guru.
At a guess: since the spammers are advertising for 'services' and 'products' available in the US, they will follow the money.
That the spam is actually being sent from China may be irrelevant. It would not be the first time that the US passed a law which also covered offences committed outside their boundaries.
The new parliament will have to vote on this, and the new parliament is going to have a lot more right-wingers from several countries (Germany, England). We will have to see how they vote.
Quick, someone patent bad lawmaking worldwide. Just think of the license fees.
That apart, you still have a really bad leader, although we can argue as to whether he was actually elected or not. The Italian leader was elected, the Greeks have also made some interesting choices recently and as for the Russians . . . think Boris 'the drunk' Yeltsin and his KGB successor.
According to Heise (german), the Germans forced a collection of amendments through. The idea behind the changes was to protect free software and avoid trivial patents.
Not with me. hda and hdd are discs, hdc is a CD/DVD-Rom.
The kernel hangs up while booting, complaining that hdd has lost an interrupt. It does that after having printed hda's partition geometry so I assume that it wants to do the same for hdd.
I think we can assume that they will fix that, and they probably have already. There is an updated 'arts' package on the download servers.
dm_mod turned out to be dm-mod so I fixed that, but a new 'serious problem' has arisen with dhcpd and my cable connection.
What annoyed me most is that they have changed so much in the kernel, that it is very difficult to revert to a standard kernel when their changes break things.
I did not count stuff like that because I had downloaded all updates to 9.1 before even installing it, working on the assumption that any bugs might make impossible for me to go online.
rpm -F is then my friend.
The current (minor) problems are:
The standard kernel is missing a module called dm_mod, and I can't even find it in the SuSE sources.
snd_via82xx wants something called 'joystick', the 'joystick' module is present and installed so that ain't it.
The floppy and dvd/cd fstab entries have 'subfs' as a filesystem. Can't find that anywhere either, but I can read CDs/DVDs so don't really care.
Only the second problem is even annoying, I want my sound back:-)
As to some of the rest, you have your own agenda. I think it was Chirac who said 'we are all Americans now' in the aftermath of 9/11, then the Bush administration made a conscious decision to throw all that away in the manner you describe.
ok, read it as "Under no circumstances do we want to repeat the mistakes the Americans made with their procedures, in Europe." Saying the Americans got something wrong is not being anti-American, you will notice that US gun-control laws are virtually unique in the world and that has nothing to do with Iraq.
Don't panic, or at least don't be overly sensitive on an issue like this.
My understanding of this is that is very difficult to turn the clock back. If the US went the sensible way and declared a whole class of patents to be unenforceable, there would be two large problems:
Large companies who make very large donations to political parties would be more than a little bit peeved. Since large companies who make very large donations seem to have taken over the political process in the US, this makes change unlikely
If an accident happened and the laws did change, would not the owners of the patents be looking for damages against the government? Or can the US government simply say 'we changed the rules, and you are out of luck'?
This is going way off the subject of software patents, but a quickie on that one:
Bismark persuaded the ruler of France - Napoleon III - to declare war on Prussia in 1871 as part of B's scheme to unite the whole of the German states under Prussian leadership. The French army was supposed to be the best in the world, but the Germans had overtaken them both in leadership and weaponry and the Germans won quickly. As far as Bismark was concerned, the thing was over. Other elements in the Prussian leadership overruled him and made the French pay large 'reparations' for having declared war.
Fast forward 47 years to the end of WW1. Germany had been too ambitious and had lost a war. The French had suffered the most and forced gigantic reparations through against the Germans, the Americans and British let the French have their way. The Germans, Austrians and Hungarians also lost a lot of territory.
The cycle was broken (and reversed) in 1945 with the Marshall Plan.
The reparations in 1871 were designed to keep the French down and reduce their ability to take revenge. The reparations in 1918 were designed to keep the Germans down and reduce their ability to take revenge. that last sentence was a testimony to the powers of copy and paste:-)
My understanding is that you can submit all the patents you want. Until the EU changes the rules, they can't be enforced.
I read an article in German yesterday detailing why the German delegates changed their minds. Someone had pointed them at some of the more ludicrous patents and made it clear to them just what sort of stuff was being patented and what the effects would be.
I have just installed 9.1 on this machine and am having major problems with it.
The presence of any XFS partitions cilled the install stone dead. I migrated them to reiserfs.
I could not upgrade to it, it would only accept a new install on this machine so I saved/etc, formatted all partitions except/home and installed.
There were I/O errors on the DVD (some useless package called grub was affected) and on two of the CDs (less important packages). Using the CDs and DVD together bypassed that
It then froze during startup with their kernel on all runlevels except 1. This meant recovering the 2.6.5 kernel sources from my backup and installing that. All important partitions were mounted with the 'acl,user_xattr' options. They seem to be SuSE updates to reiserfs and to ext2fs so my stock 2.6.5 does not know them. Booting with knoppix and changing the fstab entries fixed that.
I have *never* been able to compile a SuSE kernel with some changed options in recent years so I did not even try that this time.
Things are working reasonably well now, but I may still revert back to my old 9.0 if some more minor problems don't go away.
As a professional who spends a lot of time online (arf arf!), I am prepared to check for and download updates on a regular basis. SuSE's website is fine for that. These two women I am thinking of will be online for maybe 15 minutes a week. They should not have to be permenantly looking around their shoulders to check for updates.
Of course, only being online for 15 minutes a week over a modem is also a form of security.
Another case is my sister, she has XP and DSL. I don't know her security policy - apart from ZoneAlarm - but she is 1000 miles from me so I can't really help her anyway. Her best solution would be a DSL router with integrated firewall. Does no-one do modems with configurable firewalls? Should I patent that idea?;-)
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To me, the important bit is that 20% (ok - that is a wildly inaccurate figure) performance hit associated with a microkernel.
Yes - I'll agree that this is acceptable on a non-gaming desktop machine, but it is not acceptable on a (for example) database server. Linux was always looking to be a server-OS and is increasingly aiming at the sexy high-performance end of the market. Minix was never going to head that way.
Please, it is aisles, not isles.
As to the stuff about 'fresh produce', normally the store manager is responsible for that.
Finally, that bit about the store being set up so you have to walk right through the entire store even if you know exactly what you want and where it is, that annoys the hell out of me as well. Ikea (furniture chain based in Sweden) does that as well and that is why I have not been there for years.
You would probably have been offered a firewall.
Starting at the back: If only the original authors of SMTP could have seen the mess we're in now: I don't know who they are, but suspect that they can.
My problem with this 'caller-id' stuff is completely different, and it is rather ironic that Microsoft is behind the proposal. An increasing amount of spam nowadays is coming from owned infected bots running Win2k or XP and on high-speed links. Ok, what happens if an owned bot sends off 10000 or more mails using a legitimate email address. If the email provider has a policy in place limiting the number of mails which may be sent, then that can be caught. I suppose we need all providers to adopt some kind of policy like this, although legitimate mailing-lists then get to be difficult for people who don't have their own email server.
Apparently Honeywell's Multics systems also had a 36 bit word. Several of my email addresses in the past were '36bit@whatever' and someone once thought that meant I was a Multics guru.
At a guess: since the spammers are advertising for 'services' and 'products' available in the US, they will follow the money.
That the spam is actually being sent from China may be irrelevant. It would not be the first time that the US passed a law which also covered offences committed outside their boundaries.
:-(
The new parliament will have to vote on this, and the new parliament is going to have a lot more right-wingers from several countries (Germany, England). We will have to see how they vote.
Quick, someone patent bad lawmaking worldwide. Just think of the license fees.
That apart, you still have a really bad leader, although we can argue as to whether he was actually elected or not.
The Italian leader was elected, the Greeks have also made some interesting choices recently and as for the Russians . . . think Boris 'the drunk' Yeltsin and his KGB successor.
According to Heise (german), the Germans forced a collection of amendments through. The idea behind the changes was to protect free software and avoid trivial patents.
Ah - I did not think of trying pci=noacpi, I simply reverted to 2.6.5 which works fine.
Not with me.
hda and hdd are discs, hdc is a CD/DVD-Rom.
The kernel hangs up while booting, complaining that hdd has lost an interrupt. It does that after having printed hda's partition geometry so I assume that it wants to do the same for hdd.
press 'reset', back to 2.6.5.
I think we can assume that they will fix that, and they probably have already. There is an updated 'arts' package on the download servers.
dm_mod turned out to be dm-mod so I fixed that, but a new 'serious problem' has arisen with dhcpd and my cable connection.
What annoyed me most is that they have changed so much in the kernel, that it is very difficult to revert to a standard kernel when their changes break things.
Does that mean you thought a real Powerbook was sent through the post?
The 'computer' was not a computer at all, it was a folder made up to look vaguely like a Powerbook.
The scammer knew about import duty and VAT, which is why he asked the sender to enter a low value on the forms.
I suppose he was not expecting a fake parcel, but he thought he was the scammer.
RTFA, although there is not much detail there.
rpm -F
is then my friend.
The current (minor) problems are:
- The standard kernel is missing a module called dm_mod, and I can't even find it in the SuSE sources.
- snd_via82xx wants something called 'joystick', the 'joystick' module is present and installed so that ain't it.
- The floppy and dvd/cd fstab entries have 'subfs' as a filesystem. Can't find that anywhere either, but I can read CDs/DVDs so don't really care.
Only the second problem is even annoying, I want my sound backOutsourcing happens here (Europe) as well.
As to some of the rest, you have your own agenda. I think it was Chirac who said 'we are all Americans now' in the aftermath of 9/11, then the Bush administration made a conscious decision to throw all that away in the manner you describe.
Der Spiegel (article in German) does not agree with you. Maybe they also listened to Heise but it does not look like it.
ok, read it as
"Under no circumstances do we want to repeat the mistakes the Americans made with their procedures, in Europe."
Saying the Americans got something wrong is not being anti-American, you will notice that US gun-control laws are virtually unique in the world and that has nothing to do with Iraq.
Don't panic, or at least don't be overly sensitive on an issue like this.
- Bismark persuaded the ruler of France - Napoleon III - to declare war on Prussia in 1871 as part of B's scheme to unite the whole of the German states under Prussian leadership.
- Fast forward 47 years to the end of WW1. Germany had been too ambitious and had lost a war. The French had suffered the most and forced gigantic reparations through against the Germans, the Americans and British let the French have their way. The Germans, Austrians and Hungarians also lost a lot of territory.
- The cycle was broken (and reversed) in 1945 with the Marshall Plan.
The reparations in 1871 were designed to keep the French down and reduce their ability to take revenge.The French army was supposed to be the best in the world, but the Germans had overtaken them both in leadership and weaponry and the Germans won quickly.
As far as Bismark was concerned, the thing was over. Other elements in the Prussian leadership overruled him and made the French pay large 'reparations' for having declared war.
The reparations in 1918 were designed to keep the Germans down and reduce their ability to take revenge.
that last sentence was a testimony to the powers of copy and paste
My understanding is that you can submit all the patents you want. Until the EU changes the rules, they can't be enforced.
I read an article in German yesterday detailing why the German delegates changed their minds. Someone had pointed them at some of the more ludicrous patents and made it clear to them just what sort of stuff was being patented and what the effects would be.
I have just installed 9.1 on this machine and am having major problems with it.
- The presence of any XFS partitions cilled the install stone dead. I migrated them to reiserfs.
- I could not upgrade to it, it would only accept a new install on this machine so I saved
/etc, formatted all partitions except /home and installed. - There were I/O errors on the DVD (some useless package called grub was affected) and on two of the CDs (less important packages). Using the CDs and DVD together bypassed that
- It then froze during startup with their kernel on all runlevels except 1. This meant recovering the 2.6.5 kernel sources from my backup and installing that. All important partitions were mounted with the 'acl,user_xattr' options. They seem to be SuSE updates to reiserfs and to ext2fs so my stock 2.6.5 does not know them. Booting with knoppix and changing the fstab entries fixed that.
I have *never* been able to compile a SuSE kernel with some changed options in recent years so I did not even try that this time.Things are working reasonably well now, but I may still revert back to my old 9.0 if some more minor problems don't go away.
As a professional who spends a lot of time online (arf arf!), I am prepared to check for and download updates on a regular basis. SuSE's website is fine for that. These two women I am thinking of will be online for maybe 15 minutes a week. They should not have to be permenantly looking around their shoulders to check for updates.
;-)
Of course, only being online for 15 minutes a week over a modem is also a form of security.
Another case is my sister, she has XP and DSL. I don't know her security policy - apart from ZoneAlarm - but she is 1000 miles from me so I can't really help her anyway. Her best solution would be a DSL router with integrated firewall. Does no-one do modems with configurable firewalls? Should I patent that idea?
According to the article, there *is* no connection between the two. Phatbot was developed from Agobot.
US Authorities aparently provided the tip-offs in catching both authors.